Tara Geer

Tara Geer

Professional Background

Educational Background

M.F.A. Columbia University School of the Arts; Teaching Fellowship, Merit Scholarship, Joan Sovern Prize, & the Loius Sudler Prize given to one student at the University chosen from all the combined arts departments for excellence. (1997)

2011, Thinking Though Drawing: international, interdisciplinary symposium: gave talk “What we illustrate when we draw: Drawings as a window into normative visual processing.” To be published by Teachers College with drawings.

2008New York TimesArticle, “Her Drawings With André,” front page of the City Section about Geer’s drawing classes. Her work called “among the great drawings of our time.”*

2007 interviewed & featured on the Public Radio show, Studio 360, “Drawing & Doubting”

MacDowell Colony and Denniston Hill Residencies

Web Presence

http://tarageer.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/nyregion/thecity/06arti.html

A&HA 5060: Introduction to drawing

A critical examination of the relationship among structure, form, and surface in drawing from life: objects, humans, and landscape. Students will track the emergence and development of expressive configurations in their own work from the vantage point of evolving aesthetic and critical responses. Special fee: $100. Noncredit fee: $660 plus special fee.